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1. 3241.▲
   by bad_user 12y ago

   > Apple spends only a fraction of the amount Samsung does on marketing Apple doesn't need to spend that much on marketing when it has an army of fanboys with blogs.
2. 3242.▲
   by bad_user 12y ago

   I don't think anybody assumed you're out to trick people, however "open source" has a very clear definition [1] which implies that the work in question must be accompanied with a license respecting that definition, in or
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   by bad_user 12y ago

   To add to what @sjrd said, while you cannot import Java classes, porting Java code to Scala.js is way easier than porting to Javascript ;-)
4. 3244.▲
   by bad_user 12y ago

   You don't run code in multiple threads, but Scala's ExecutionContext is not about threads, but about asynchronous execution and JS is fine with that. Also, all of Scala's collections, including the persistent ones are support
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   by bad_user 12y ago

   Most people could run in marathons successfully, unless they are sick or something. It's what the human body was built for. And if you are going to argue that playing the violin requires an ear for music, as if that's so uncommon,
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   by bad_user 12y ago

   I don't think it's a good thing either. I also find the spread of autism terrifying. My wife works at a kindergarten and she has had to deal with children that have problems from the autistic spectrum, healthy enough to be allowed
7. 3247.▲
   by bad_user 12y ago

   Given that autism is a mental condition characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with others, involving an atypical brain development for some reason or another, I believe that this is evidence enough that soc
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   by bad_user 12y ago

   What you're saying is true and I used to be optimistic about it like you, however I stopped believing that it is feasible for most adults after failing to teach family members the basics or junior colleagues to become better. Maybe I&#
9. 3249.▲
   by bad_user 12y ago

   I don't get it. I know how prototypes in Javascript work, I can agree that you get a certain degree of flexibility that you don't get with class-based languages, which sometimes is useful, however people are still modeling classes
10. 3250.▲
    by bad_user 12y ago

    Here's where I disagree with other people - software development is special in that it requires focus, relentlessness, intelligence, creativity and I also find it interesting that many software developers tend to suffer conditions from
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    My path was different. I was decent enough to implement basic algorithms and data-structures since high-school. I couldn't build apps of course. Then in the first year of college I got hired for a small and shitty company doing web dev
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Don't know the quality of Norwegian comments on newspapers, but if it's anything like what happens in my country, I can understand them asking for full names. In short, stupid and mean, really mean, YouTube-style. Of course, a ful
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    What TV series?
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    > You can't really/easily use a scala library from MRI You can easily link Scala with Ruby by running both on the JVM. Assuming you really want MRI, on the client-side that implies running 2 processes with their own runtime at
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Isn't that setting up a straw-man? Nobody sane would use C/C++ when they could get away with Python and nobody sane would use Python if they need to control the memory layout and access patterns like in C/C++. Obvious candida
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    The mistake you're doing is thinking only about impulse or intent driven advertising. But there's another form of advertising, which is brand advertising (i.e. CPV). Why do you think that Coca-Cola or Pepsi insist on airing expens
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    I was originally against ad-blockers, because it provides me with an incentive to look for alternatives and I also want to reward websites that don't do this shit. However, it's because of scams and malware pushed by means of ads
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    No, that's not similar. There's a huge difference there ... Good consultants / freelancers have higher hourly rates than normal employees, to cover their expenses and the periods of inactivity. Plus really good ones are much
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    I got a Nexus 6, which is a 6 inch phone (I don't recommended it to people because the screen is poorly calibrated). And I love the size. For me my phone is a an Internet-enabled general purpose device, which includes email, Skype, Fac
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    This drive to reduce humanity to a set of chemical reactions and evolutionary traits is misplaced, because nothing makes less amazing our ability to love just about anything. And we should celebrate that, instead of being condescending abou
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Other distributions favored Gnome, like Fedora and RedHat, which has been dominating the enterprise. And maybe I'm wrong, but compared to other distros, Kubuntu was always in good shape. Back in the day when Canonical was distributing
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Well, I for one am glad that Microsoft decided against WebKit/Blink. Because of its popularity as a rendering engine, being used by Safari, Chrome and Opera, both on the desktop and on mobile phones, it is quickly becoming a monocultur
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Users in general don't upgrade unless forced, because non-technical folks are conservative. All of Microsoft's competition have encouraged (free) updates in one way or another, with much less regard towards backwards compatibility
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Does this also work for Firefox on Android? EDIT: it seems that it's not compatible with Firefox 35 on my Android. Oh well, more patience required :-)
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    The same arguments can be said about Perl. An expressive language is good to work in, because reading 1 line of code instead of 100 is always better for readability and also verbosity is a cause of accidental bugs - one line of code that do
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    I've dabbled in the source-code of many projects. And personally I've never seen projects more incomprehensible than some of the ones I've seen built with Java. Of course, I've also seen well written Java code, however J
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Hello - I also worked with Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, C#, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, Javascript, PHP and C and have been playing with Rust, Haskell, F#, Erlang and Scheme as well. In my opinion it isn't just an easy context switch and
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    It really doesn't work out well, especially where it matters - on mobile phones with poor connectivity. Why do you think alternatives like Zepto.js exist?
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Minified/optimized, but not gzipped. Size will depend on what you do with it. But play with it, see how it behaves, it's fun anyway.
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    by bad_user 12y ago

    Well yeah, but arguing programming languages is what we do - it's like talking about sports for us, isn't it? :-) You're right of course.